ZFS is a file-system originally developed by Sun Microsystems for Solaris and is continued to be maintained by Oracle. ZFS is also available in many BSD operating systems using the CDDL licensed code and is available for Linux users via a FUSE implementation or out-of-tree ZFS Linux kernel module.

ZFS Articles & Reviews

Running BSDs On The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series - FreeBSD vs. Linux Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2020-12-21
A Quick Look At EXT4 vs. ZFS Performance On Ubuntu 19.10 With An NVMe SSD   Software   2019-10-16
Benchmarking The Experimental Bcachefs File-System Against Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS & ZFS   Storage   2019-06-25
Optane SSD RAID Performance With ZFS On Linux, EXT4, XFS, Btrfs, F2FS   Storage   2019-06-20
FreeBSD ZFS vs. ZoL Performance, Ubuntu ZFS On Linux Reference   Storage   2019-04-24
FreeBSD ZFS vs. TrueOS ZoF vs. DragonFlyBSD HAMMER2 vs. ZFS On Linux Benchmarks   Storage   2019-01-26
FreeBSD ZFS vs. Linux EXT4/Btrfs RAID With Twenty SSDs   Storage   2018-12-14
Taking ZFS For A Test Drive On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS   Software   2016-04-23
Some Quick Tests With ZFS, F2FS, Btrfs & Friends On Linux 4.4   Software   2016-01-20
A New Linux File-System Aims For Speed While Having ZFS/Btrfs-Like Features   Software   2015-08-21
Running ZFS On The Linux 4.1 Kernel   Storage   2015-07-07
6-Way File-System Comparison On The Linux 4.1 Kernel   Software   2015-07-02
ZFS Still Trying To Compete With EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux   Software   2013-08-27
10-Way Linux File-System Comparison On Linux 3.10   Software   2013-08-08
ZFS On Linux With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS   Software   2012-06-27
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Benchmarking All The Linux File-Systems   Software   2012-03-16
Benchmarks Of The Official KQ ZFS Linux Module   Software   2011-01-27
Can DragonFly's HAMMER Compete With Btrfs, ZFS?   Software   2011-01-07
Benchmarks Of AMD's Newest Gallium3D Driver   Display Drivers   2010-11-22
New Benchmarks Of OpenSolaris, BSD & Linux   Operating Systems   2010-11-22
Running The Native ZFS Linux Kernel Module, Plus Benchmarks   Software   2010-11-22
The Linux 2.6.37 Kernel With EXT4 & Btrfs   Software   2010-11-10
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Benchmarks With Its New Kernel   Operating Systems   2010-10-18
EXT4 & Btrfs Regressions In Linux 2.6.36   Software   2010-09-08
Benchmarks Of ZFS-FUSE On Linux Against EXT4, Btrfs   Software   2010-08-30
Using Disk Compression With Btrfs To Enhance Performance   Software   2010-08-28
Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month   Software   2010-08-27
Btrfs, EXT4 & ZFS On A Solid-State Drive   Storage   2010-08-09
Benchmarking ZFS On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux   Software   2010-07-27
Running ZFS With CAM-based ATA On FreeBSD 8.1   Software   2010-07-26
Btrfs v0.19 Brings Some Gains, Some Losses   Software   2009-07-13
New Project Indiana Details Emerge   Operating Systems   2007-09-19

ZFS Linux & Open-Source News

OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 Delivers RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup & Direct IO   Linux Storage   2024-10-05
OpenZFS Merges Support For Direct IO   Linux Storage   2024-09-20
OpenZFS 2.2.6 Debuts With Linux 6.10 Support & Early Linux 6.11 Compatibility   Linux Storage   2024-09-04
Armbian 24.8 Moves To Linux 6.10, Supports Newer ARM & RISC-V Boards   Operating Systems   2024-09-02
FreeBSD 13.4 Nears Release With Modernized DVD Package Set, Driver Updates   BSD   2024-08-24
AMD & FreeBSD Begin Collaborating Over OS Improvements   BSD   2024-08-19
OpenZFS 2.2.5 Released With Linux 6.9 Support, Some Linux 6.10 Bits   Linux Storage   2024-08-06
Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory   systemd   2024-06-19
The JFS File-System Remains In Sad Shape With The Upstream Linux Kernel   Linux Storage   2024-06-17
FreeBSD Community Survey Confirms ZFS Is Their Most Valued Server Feature   BSD   2024-06-12
FreeBSD 14.1 Released With Performance Improvements, OpenZFS Upgrade & Better Sound   BSD   2024-06-04
QuestDB 8.0 Brings Up To 50% Performance Improvement, ZFS Data Compression   Programming   2024-05-29
FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor   BSD   2024-05-27
OCFS2 File-System Seeing Improved Write Performance On Linux 6.10   Linux Storage   2024-05-20
Ubuntu 24.10 To See More Polishing, NVIDIA Wayland By Default & New Welcome Wizard   Ubuntu   2024-05-17
Sound Support For Intel Battlemage In Linux 6.10   Intel   2024-05-15
FreeBSD 14.1 Bringing Reproducibly Built Kernels, OpenZFS 2.2.4   BSD   2024-05-13
OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support   Linux Storage   2024-05-03
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available   Ubuntu   2024-04-25
TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform   Operating Systems   2024-04-24
Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption   Ubuntu   2024-04-16
Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project   Operating Systems   2024-04-10
OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance   Linux Storage   2024-04-05
KSMBD Now Implements Durable File Handles With Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-21
Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor   Nouveau   2024-03-20
FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added   BSD   2024-03-05
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February   Phoronix   2024-03-01
OpenZFS 2.2.3 Released With Numerous Fixes, Support For Linux 6.7~6.8 Kernels   Linux Storage   2024-02-22
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop Installer Adds New Accessibility Options   Ubuntu   2024-02-17
GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements   BSD   2024-02-15
Fast Dedup Coming To OpenZFS For Overhauling Deduplication Capability   Linux Storage   2024-02-15
OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns   Linux Storage   2024-02-12
FreeBSD Considers Making Use Of Rust Within Its Base System   BSD   2024-01-22
Debian 12.3 Delayed Due To An EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed   Debian   2023-12-10
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights   Phoronix   2023-12-01
OpenZFS 2.2.2 & OpenZFS 2.1.14 Released To Fix Data Corruption Issue   Linux Storage   2023-12-01
OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue   Linux Storage   2023-11-27
OpenZFS 2.2.1 Released Due To A Block Cloning Bug Causing Data Corruption   Linux Storage   2023-11-22
FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up To 1,024 CPU Cores, OpenZFS 2.2 & Adds Fwget   BSD   2023-11-20
OpenZFS Lands Exciting RAIDZ Expansion Feature   Linux Storage   2023-11-09
OpenZFS Lands Sync Parallelism To Drive Big Gains For Write Performance Scalability   Linux Storage   2023-11-07
After A Delay, ISA Drivers Will Be Kept Around Until FreeBSD 15   BSD   2023-11-04
Stratis 3.6 Released For Improving Linux Storage Management   Linux Storage   2023-10-25
FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.2, OpenSSH 9.5p1   BSD   2023-10-21
Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop ISOs Re-Released Following Translation Snafu   Ubuntu   2023-10-16
FreeBSD 14 Nears Release With Support For Up To 1024 CPU Cores, Updated Drivers   BSD   2023-10-14
OpenZFS 2.2 Released With Block Cloning, Linux Container Support & Better Performance   Linux Storage   2023-10-13
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations   Ubuntu   2023-10-12
Ubuntu 23.10 Now Available With ZFS Desktop Install Option, Linux 6.5 Kernel   Ubuntu   2023-10-12
OpenZFS 2.2-rc5 Released With More Fixes & Linux 6.5 Compatibility   Linux Storage   2023-10-07
OpenZFS 2.1.13 Brings Linux 6.5 Kernel Compatibility   Linux Storage   2023-09-28
Ubuntu 23.10 Beta Released - Powered By Linux 6.5, GNOME 45 & Other Updates   Ubuntu   2023-09-22
Ubuntu 23.10's Firefox Snap Enabling Wayland By Default   Ubuntu   2023-09-16
Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer   Ubuntu   2023-09-13
FreeBSD 14 Beta Released - Initial WiFi 6 Support, Updated LLVM Toolchain, Fwget Utility   BSD   2023-09-09
OpenZFS 2.2-rc4 Delivers Last Minute Fixes   Linux Storage   2023-09-08
XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over   Linux Storage   2023-08-30
Canonical Releases LXD 5.17 With OpenZFS 2.2 Delegation Support   Ubuntu   2023-08-26
FreeBSD 14 Alpha 2 Available For Testing - The Last Series For 32-bit Platforms   BSD   2023-08-19
OpenZFS 2.2-rc3 Released With Linux 6.4 Support   Linux Storage   2023-07-28
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees   Ubuntu   2023-07-27
OpenZFS 2.2-rc2 Brings Linux 6.5 Compatibility Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed   Linux Storage   2023-07-22
GNU Binutils 2.41 Coming With Intel AMX-COMPLEX + FRED/LKGS, New RISC-V & LoongArch Bits   GNU   2023-07-03
What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023   Phoronix   2023-06-30
OpenZFS 2.2-rc1 Brings Linux Container Support, BLAKE3 Checksums, Block Cloning   Linux Storage   2023-06-30
OpenZFS 2.1.12 Released With Linux 6.3 Compatibility   Linux Storage   2023-06-07
Microsoft's Linux Distribution Finally Adds Support For XFS Root File-Systems   Microsoft   2023-05-03
Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" Now Available For Download   Ubuntu   2023-04-20
Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop's New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support   Ubuntu   2023-04-17
OpenZFS 2.1.10 Released - Adds Linux 6.2 Support, Finally Drops Python 2 Compatibility   Linux Storage   2023-04-15
FreeBSD 13.2 Released With WireGuard Driver, ASLR By Default For 64-bit Executables   BSD   2023-04-11
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
Linux 6.4 Device Mapper To See Improved Concurrent I/O Performance   Linux Storage   2023-03-27
GNU Coreutils 9.2 - Now Avoids cp/mv Allocating Too Much Memory   GNU   2023-03-20
Ubuntu's New Desktop Installer Working On Auto-Install, Active Directory Integration   Ubuntu   2023-02-20
FreeBSD 13.2 Beta 1 Released With WireGuard, Bhyve Improvements, ASLR By Default   BSD   2023-02-14
Linux 6.3 Features, Intel Sapphire Rapids & More Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2023-01-31
Stratis Storage 3.5 Released With Encrypted Cache Support   Linux Storage   2023-01-25
OpenZFS 2.1.8 Released With Linux 6.1~6.2 Compatibility Updates, Bug Fixes   Linux Storage   2023-01-20
DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Being Ported To NetBSD   BSD   2023-01-11
OpenZFS Lands A Very Nice Performance Optimization   Linux Storage   2023-01-06
Ubuntu's New Installer Taking Shape Nicely For Ubuntu 23.04   Ubuntu   2023-01-02
OpenZFS 2.1.7 Released With Linux 6.0 Support, Many Bug Fixes   Linux Storage   2022-12-02
Fedora Installer Looks To Change Its BIOS/Fake RAID Handling   Fedora   2022-11-25
Stratis 3.4 Released As The Latest Open-Source Linux Storage Work From Red Hat   Linux Storage   2022-11-24
Bcachefs Rolling Out New Allocator, Performance Continues Improving   Linux Storage   2022-10-29
OpenZFS Eyes Faster Scrub, Improved Compression, uZFS, Better Performance   Linux Storage   2022-10-25
FreeBSD 12.4-BETA1 Released, Q3-2022 Status Report Issued   BSD   2022-10-22
Stratis Storage 3.3 Released - Easily Make Use Of Expanded RAID Arrays   Red Hat   2022-10-21
OpenZFS 2.1.6 Released With Newer Linux Kernel Support, Fixes   Linux Storage   2022-10-04
FreeBSD In Q2-2022: More Than 30k Ports, Driver Improvements, Better Linux Compatibility   BSD   2022-08-09
XFS Scalability Improvement, Other File-System Enhancements Land In Linux 6.0   Linux Storage   2022-08-05
Stratis Storage 3.2 Comes With The Ability To Stop/Start Pools   Linux Storage   2022-07-08
OpenGL Celebrates Its 30th Birthday   Standards   2022-06-30
Fedora 37 Looks To Ship With Stratis Storage 3.1 Support   Fedora   2022-06-24
OpenZFS 2.1.5 Released With Linux 5.18 Compatibility, Bug Fixes   Linux Storage   2022-06-22
Stratis 3.1 Released For Red Hat's Linux Storage Management Solution   Red Hat   2022-05-25
FreeBSD 13.1 Released With UEFI Boot Enhancements, Driver Improvements   BSD   2022-05-16
FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 Released Due To Lingering Bugs   BSD   2022-05-06
Intel Hires Linux/BSD Performance Expert Brendan Gregg   Intel   2022-05-02
FreeBSD 13.1-RC3 Brings Zstd For Libarchive, Build Fixes   BSD   2022-04-15
Ubuntu's Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year   Ubuntu   2022-04-12
FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.1, WiFi Updates   BSD   2022-04-01
FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 3 Enables Reproducible Kernel Build Option By Default   BSD   2022-03-25
IO_uring Gets New Features & Speed-Ups With Linux 5.18   Linux Storage   2022-03-19
FreeBSD 13.1 BETA 2 Released With Updated OpenZFS   BSD   2022-03-18
Bcachefs Continues Making Progress - Finishes Big Allocator Rewrite   Linux Storage   2022-03-14
OpenZFS 2.1.3 Released With Many Fixes   Linux Storage   2022-03-10
Linux Developers Discuss Deprecating & Removing ReiserFS   Linux Kernel   2022-02-22
Bcachefs Might Be Ready For Upstreaming In Linux This Year   Linux Storage   2022-02-16
X.Org Foundation May Find A New Organization To Join   X.Org   2022-01-21
GhostBSD 22.01.12 Released With Automatic Detection For Old AMD GPUs   BSD   2022-01-17
Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success   Ubuntu   2021-12-30
FreeBSD 12.3 Released With Updated AMD & Networking Hardware, Password Protected ZIPs   BSD   2021-12-07
Red Hat's Stratis Storage 3.0 Released With Many Improvements   Linux Storage   2021-11-16
Proof-Of-Concept Work Brings systemd To Ubuntu WSL   Ubuntu   2021-11-16
FreeBSD Improving Boot Times, Adds Hole-Punching, Better Linux Binary Compatibility   BSD   2021-11-15
OpenZFS 3.0 Could See macOS Support & DirectIO, While ZFS For Windows Continues   Linux Storage   2021-11-10
DirectIO For OpenZFS Shows Very Promising Performance   Linux Storage   2021-11-10
Void-Linux-Powered Project Trident To Cease Operations   Operating Systems   2021-10-30
BLK-MQ Support For OpenZFS Pending As Latest Performance Optimization   Linux Storage   2021-10-26
Trying Out Ubuntu's New Flutter+Curtin-Powered Desktop Installer Was Disappointing   Ubuntu   2021-10-21
OpenZFS 2.0.6 Released With Support For Newer Kernels   Linux Storage   2021-09-25
OpenZFS 2.1.1 Arrives As A Big Point Release   Linux Storage   2021-09-16
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release Schedule Published   Ubuntu   2021-08-27
OPNsense 21.7 Released With New Installer Offering Better ZFS Support   BSD   2021-07-28
CentOS Forms A Group To Flip On Old, Deprecated Or Out-Of-Tree Kernel Modules   Red Hat   2021-07-11
OpenZFS 2.1 Released With dRAID, Compatibility Property, Better Performance   Linux Storage   2021-07-02
OpenZFS 2.1-rc8 Brings Linux 5.13 Compatibility, More Fixes   Linux Storage   2021-06-30
Experimental Reiser5 File-System Patch Updated For Linux 5.12   Linux Storage   2021-06-20
OpenZFS 2.1 Gets More Cleanups, Better Documentation Ahead Of Release   Linux Storage   2021-06-11
OpenZFS 2.1-rc6 Released - Will Now Scale Worker Threads With CPU Core Count   Linux Storage   2021-05-28
Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects   Google   2021-05-17
NetBSD 9.2 Released With Many Fixes, Much Faster FREAD   BSD   2021-05-17
OpenZFS 2.1-rc5 Released With Linux 5.12 Support, Many Bug Fixes   Linux Storage   2021-05-10
GhostBSD Shifts Base To FreeBSD 13.0, Improvements For OpenZFS 2.0   BSD   2021-04-30
OpenZFS 2.1-rc4 Delivers Another Round Of Fixes   Linux Storage   2021-04-23
OpenZFS 2.1-rc3 Delivers More Fixes   Linux Storage   2021-04-15
OpenZFS 2.1.0-rc2 Released With Bug Fixes   Linux Storage   2021-04-07
OpenZFS 2.1-rc1 Released With Distributed Spare RAID "dRAID"   Linux Storage   2021-03-30
Ubuntu Figuring Out Whether To FSCK Its File-Systems At Boot   Ubuntu   2021-03-23
FreeBSD 13.0-RC2 Released With ZFS Fixes, WireGuard Interface Fixes   BSD   2021-03-13
OpenZFS 2.0.4 Released With Linux 5.11 Support, Early Linux 5.12 Compatibility Updates   Linux Storage   2021-03-09
Btrfs Will Finally "Strongly Discourage" You When Creating RAID5 / RAID6 Arrays   Linux Storage   2021-03-07
XFS File-System With Linux 5.12 Has "A Lot Going On This Time"   Linux Storage   2021-02-21
FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 Released With WireGuard, Updated ZFS, NUMA Optimizations   BSD   2021-02-06
OpenZFS 2.0.2 Released With Fixes, Compatibility Against Latest FreeBSD   Linux Storage   2021-02-01
FreeBSD Continues Work On Ridding Its Base Of GPL-Licensed Software   BSD   2021-01-16
Alpine Linux 3.13 Brings Official Cloud Images, Much Faster Node.js, Cloud-Init Support   Operating Systems   2021-01-14
OpenZFS 2.0.1 Released With Linux 5.10 Support, Many Fixes   Linux Storage   2021-01-06